What are we like?

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I know life isn’t meant to be all serious. In fact quite the reverse, we need to have fun, laugh and enjoy ourselves.

But for some reason we also seem to love what I would call “drivel” in times when we should be considering things more serious.

Reading the Herald today made me think of this.

We have the global economy shrinking for the first time since World War 2. The only reason we aren’t calling this a depression is because it will sound too scary, but a depression is what we are heading into.
Now that isn’t the end of the world but it is a time for all of us to get educated and get busy taking care of our own lives and positioning ourselves and our communities to “maximise the positives and eliminate the negatives”, as the song says.

So here in New Zealand what are the major things under discussion??

Whether a smallish town in the North Island should be spelt differently by changing it from a “W” to a “Wh”.
AND whether we should adopt maori names for the North and South Island.

Calling this ridiculous is being too kind.

Not this these are ridiculous issues in themselves, (although a majority of kiwi’s might say they are), but surely we have more important things to discuss publicly at the moment.

I always picture some sealed room somewhere full of academics who are never let outside and every now and again they get told to come up with a politically correct but totally irrelevant topic to be promoted to the media. It’s like we haven’t filled our “irrelevant distraction from real life” quota.

Anyway rant over .

On a more positive note, the property market continues to deliver more and more cashflow as things generally deteriorate.

I was talking with a mate of mine yesterday who is looking in tourist areas where the downturn is forcing sales of units and motels. He just picked up a 13% return deal thanks to the recession.

In Auckland too cashflow is back, (borrowing money isn’t but we’re working on that), so as I keep saying, providing you know what you want and how to stay safe, now is the next best time to ten years ago to be investing in your future through property.

Till tomorrow, Stay Safe ~ Dean Letfus @ www.MassiveAction.co.nz